Oh! You've have me!This is tantalizing!OK. I think this is a venerable gnarled oak. This reminds me of the foothills of New England or Connecticut. I think some of the other trees are birches.I can only think of the Charter Oak of Connecticut.I have no idea of the artist as I'm not sure it is a well-known artist or illustrator.

I love the colors in this paticular painting as well and can't wait to share about it. He has a large body of work and some look like this and then some are really off beat. I will post a link to several of the artist's work as well.

Tour Marm, you have me as well with your Figure It Out Friday. I'm still researching it when I can......I've already gone through hundred of images:)

Thanks for visiting my WW and don't forget Thursday is just around the corner.

OK. I really do give up!I've looked at more trees last night than Joyce Kilmer did in his lifetime!I also investigated African-American artists from Georgia like Dodd and Hale.Besides going on Antiques Roadshow and asking for opinions, this is the limit!